Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences.

no one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does.

What was money that it should make such dreadful things of men and women?

Be sure that you are right; and then go ahead.

To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

Tears were a blessing; they were a relief; they did wash the ache from the heart, ease brain strain, and encourage the soul.

we know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful.